Guido Guidi - Veramente - 2014

Indeed it was published on the occasion of the itinerant exhibition of the same name that opens at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in January 2014 and embraces the entire work of the Italian photographer Guido Guidi, bringing together excerpts from his series from 1959 to today to illuminate the distinctive photographic language he forged in forty years of career.

Guidi, a pioneer of the new Italian landscape photography, together with Luigi Ghirri, was influenced by the history of architecture, Italian neorealist cinema, and conceptual art. Using photography as a process and an experience of understanding, Guidi's corpus of works frames a visual discourse that revolves around what it means to see or what it can mean to offer an image.

Guido Guidi was born in Cesena, Italy, in 1941. He studied in Venice at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura (today IUAV), where he attended courses by Bruno Zevi, Carlo Scarpa, and Mario De Luigi, and at the Corso Superiore di Disegno Industriale with Italo Zannier and Luigi Veronesi. He deserves to be rightfully counted among the most important Italian photographers; a close friend of Luigi Ghirri, in 1984 he is indeed among the photographers of the iconic project (book + exhibition) "Viaggio in Italia" conceived by Ghirri; with him Mimmo Jodice, Mario Cresci, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Claude Nori, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Vittore Fossati and others. Viaggio in Italia becomes the “manifesto” of what, born in the early eighties, would become “The Italian School of Landscape Photography.”

A rare and unmissable volume for lovers of Guido Guidi and of the "Scuola Italiana della fotografia di paesaggio".